suchandra Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 As kali-yuga proceeds we find more and more materialistic stumbling blocks on our spiritual path and as Prabhupada points out (at that time like Arjuna playing the role of a conditioned soul before his spiritual master), he presented to his spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja the tragedy that India is under foreign rule, subjugated, mortified and people are badly suffering due to this and the very first thing would be to overcome this deadly stranglehold caused by the British East India Company ("Road to a complete monopoly") whose goal was like a merciless vampire to exploit India's economy like some malicious parasite. And only then when this is accomplished, Prabhupada argued, to start global preaching in full swing. Appearance Day, Lecture by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Atlanta, March 2, 1975 "I was taken to Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākura by one of my friends. I did not want to go there, but he forcibly took me there. Yes. And he ordered me that “You preach the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu in English language. This is very much essential.” So on the first meeting he told me like that. That was my first meeting with him. So at that time I was in favor of Gandhi’s movement. So I said that “We are not independent—subjugated. Who will hear about our message?” So Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākura refuted my argument. I was very much pleased. I had so many talks. But I was very much pleased to be defeated, that “This so-called nationalism or any ism, they are all temporary. Real need is the self-realization.” Full lecture: http://causelessmercy.com/t/t/750302BA.ATL.htm?i=1975 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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